Tennisopolis : Tennis Social Network2016-12-09T17:37:18ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorrishttp://api.ning.com/files/-t0DBdNcbr-*6k9ZYV7BTUFpLa1u9e-7PbEEcDoflHCWnJ690rAqVCHUUDELeeIC0bLz*aBgSeZyhogXKk1UkREHKZw828MV/Photo_031709_003.jpg?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://tennisopolis.com/group/windycityplayers/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=3vm3btnx6g52a&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTennis is much easier than you thinktag:tennisopolis.com,2016-11-11:1869403:Topic:12372252016-11-11T17:52:32.759ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorris
<p>For most people, tennis being easy is a difficult concept to agree with. So let me ask you a few questions: </p>
<p>Full article link <a target="_blank">https://oscarwegner.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/tennis-is-much-easier-than-you-think/</a></p>
<p>For most people, tennis being easy is a difficult concept to agree with. So let me ask you a few questions: </p>
<p>Full article link <a target="_blank">https://oscarwegner.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/tennis-is-much-easier-than-you-think/</a></p> ChiTownTennis's Fall Flex Season starts Aug. 23rdtag:tennisopolis.com,2016-08-09:1869403:Topic:12336282016-08-09T17:13:34.514ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorris
<p align="center"><b>ChiTownTennis</b><b>'s Fall Flex Season starts Aug. 23rd</b></p>
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<p>Our Fall Flex Season starts Aug. 23rd. Join our active community on the courts either in league play or the tennis ladder.</p>
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<p align="center"><b>ChiTownTennis</b><b>'s Fall Flex Season starts Aug. 23rd</b></p>
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<p>Our Fall Flex Season starts Aug. 23rd. Join our active community on the courts either in league play or the tennis ladder.</p>
<p> <a href="https://www.ChiTownTennis.com/join?From=500" target="_blank"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/2FjpMK*bX1aGAK7YZjlOYjZGmbvYBVoD4GzsIxXPaDcucmoqftT32ITl7clNysRg*NrMsfukyYyckTwXAzKQjwDfUU9Zt0Ce/chicagoTennisopolis.jpg?width=420" class="align-center" width="420"/></a></p>
<p>Tennisopolis players get 10% off their first time league entry fee by using this link:</p>
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<p>JOIN TODAY!</p> Looking for hitting partner in Northshore areatag:tennisopolis.com,2016-07-03:1869403:Topic:12308242016-07-03T17:11:03.115ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorris
<p>Anyone want to rally? I am a female, 3.5 player, looking for someone to hit with weekday evenings in the Northbrook, Winnetka, Wilmette, Evanston, Skokie, and Rogers Park (Chicago) areas. Also available some weekends.</p>
<p>Anyone want to rally? I am a female, 3.5 player, looking for someone to hit with weekday evenings in the Northbrook, Winnetka, Wilmette, Evanston, Skokie, and Rogers Park (Chicago) areas. Also available some weekends.</p> Tennis and the spirit withintag:tennisopolis.com,2016-05-30:1869403:Topic:12263262016-05-30T17:57:26.198ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorris
<h2>Humans have an inborn desire to know themselves.</h2>
<h2>Sports have become not only a discharger of accumulated energy but also a vehicle to show one’s mastery over a simple task, in most cases, of controlling and placing a ball, and a tool to learn controlling one’s body as well.</h2>
<h2>Whether baseball, basketball, tennis, football, soccer, golf, cricket, squash, badminton, handball, bowling, hockey, lacrosse, ping-pong or croquet, pool or billiards, mastery is, or isn’t, a simple…</h2>
<h2>Humans have an inborn desire to know themselves.</h2>
<h2>Sports have become not only a discharger of accumulated energy but also a vehicle to show one’s mastery over a simple task, in most cases, of controlling and placing a ball, and a tool to learn controlling one’s body as well.</h2>
<h2>Whether baseball, basketball, tennis, football, soccer, golf, cricket, squash, badminton, handball, bowling, hockey, lacrosse, ping-pong or croquet, pool or billiards, mastery is, or isn’t, a simple thing.</h2>
<h2>Humans are very special beings, in essence more spiritual that we ever thought we are. There are many philosophies about that, the majority complicating one’s search with misconceptions, other obscuring who we really are.</h2>
<h2>The real science is that which clarifies not only who we really are, but that one that provides a path to rid of one’s barriers in the chameleon or labyrinth of one’s life.</h2>
<h2>While that science makes full appearance, tennis, the way I teach it, tending, trending and threading to an extreme simplicity, can lead to great joy. It permits you to feel and strive in that spirit-body connection which is the essence of all great performances in sports.</h2>
<h2>Thought and mechanics can either be aligned or fight each other. Alignment and simplicity brings you more feel, more calmness, closer to your essence, while added data can make you more solid and complicate the task.</h2>
<h2>It seems a conundrum, a complicated matter, but the opposite is truth, a simplicity to honor and behold: we are humans, body and spirit, lovely souls in which the spirit is King!</h2>
<h2>And what is a spirit? Well, JUST FEEL IT!</h2>
<h2>Feel your hands, feel your racquet, feel the ball, feel your body and feel the simplicity. Feel yourself!</h2>
<h2>Oscar Wegner</h2>
<h2><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tennisiseasy.com/">tennisiseasy.com</a></h2> New easy tennistag:tennisopolis.com,2016-05-22:1869403:Topic:12254752016-05-22T01:48:42.568ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorris
<p><a href="https://oscarwegner.wordpress.com/2016/05/21/tennis-is-an-easy-sport-to-learn/" target="_blank">WordPress Link</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://oscarwegner.wordpress.com/2016/05/21/tennis-is-an-easy-sport-to-learn/" target="_blank">WordPress Link</a></p>
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<p>Go to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tennisiseasy.com/" target="_blank">tennisiseasy.com</a> - free book and free videos. Best wishes, Oscar</p>
<p>Go to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tennisiseasy.com/" target="_blank">tennisiseasy.com</a> - free book and free videos. Best wishes, Oscar</p> Calling all singles and dubs! Gladiator Tennis Spring Season Signup until April 5th...tag:tennisopolis.com,2016-03-19:1869403:Topic:12184562016-03-19T04:45:01.480ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorris
<p>Gladiator Tennis is a five star flexible league starting it's 10th season of competition and camaraderie. I found about this league a few years back and it's so well run. I'd love for you to be a part of it.</p>
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<p>Use jleo in the coupon code box when purchasing a season option and get $10 off your Spring Season.</p>
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<p>Gladiator Tennis is a five star flexible league starting it's 10th season of competition and camaraderie. I found about this league a few years back and it's so well run. I'd love for you to be a part of it.</p>
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<p>Use jleo in the coupon code box when purchasing a season option and get $10 off your Spring Season.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gladiatortennis.com">http://www.gladiatortennis.com</a></p> 3.0 in the West Looptag:tennisopolis.com,2015-09-10:1869403:Topic:12065482015-09-10T16:01:51.840ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorris
<p>Anybody wanna play? I've played at Sheridan Park by UIC but open to other areas as well. I work for myself so can play during the day or in the evening. I took Advanced Beginner lessons this Summer and now am just looking to play consistently to improve.</p>
<p>Anybody wanna play? I've played at Sheridan Park by UIC but open to other areas as well. I work for myself so can play during the day or in the evening. I took Advanced Beginner lessons this Summer and now am just looking to play consistently to improve.</p> Play REAL modern tennis and TIPtag:tennisopolis.com,2015-08-29:1869403:Topic:12048172015-08-29T20:52:21.268ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorris
<h2>Conventional tennis is DEAD! Learn WHY closed or semi-open stances and stepping into the ball can kill your game!</h2>
<h2>WHY linear tennis and hitting through the ball can kill your feel!</h2>
<h2>WHY brushing and pulling across on a circular motion is far superior and will help your feel, power and control and your body’s HEALTH!</h2>
<h2>No more tennis elbow, no more lower back, hip and knee pain!</h2>
<h2>The top pros do it easily! So should YOU!…</h2>
<h2>Conventional tennis is DEAD! Learn WHY closed or semi-open stances and stepping into the ball can kill your game!</h2>
<h2>WHY linear tennis and hitting through the ball can kill your feel!</h2>
<h2>WHY brushing and pulling across on a circular motion is far superior and will help your feel, power and control and your body’s HEALTH!</h2>
<h2>No more tennis elbow, no more lower back, hip and knee pain!</h2>
<h2>The top pros do it easily! So should YOU!</h2>
<h2><a href="http://www.tennisteacher.com/" target="_blank">www.tennisteacher.com</a> or <a href="http://www.oscarwegner.com/" target="_blank">www.oscarwegner.com</a></h2>
<h1><strong>The Zone</strong></h1>
<h2>Focusing (and the Zone) is basically shutting off the mind and just plainly looking, observing, feeling.</h2>
<h2>You may think it’s like “meditation”, but actually is a shut-off of the mind. In other words, a different kind of operation than what we get used to by thinking.</h2>
<h2>Very young kids are very good at it, until they are “schooled” or taught that thinking is very important. It may be, but in tennis the key is observation (looking) and staying in present time. I usually have players count to five, one exactly at the bounce, then two, three, four and five, five is your stroke.</h2>
<h2>There is so much time in tennis that sometimes you have to make a pause between 4 and 5. This is not immediately grasped, as the mind makes tennis look fast, but the ball, from baseline to baseline, actually loses 60% of the speed, measured on hard courts at the US Open!</h2>
<h2>Serves, coming from higher, lose 55% of the speed.</h2>
<h2>You can count silently. Once you get used to counting, you gradually develop this awareness that time is slower, that time expands.</h2>
<h2>That’s how you get in the Zone, as described by so many great athletes and top tennis players! (and my students)</h2>
<h2>Give counting a try!</h2>
<h2>Learn <strong>REAL </strong>modern tennis!</h2>
<h2><a href="http://www.tennisteacher.com/" target="_blank">tennisteacher.com</a> and <a href="http://www.oscarwegner.com/" target="_blank">oscarwegner.com</a></h2> Hitting in Northbrooktag:tennisopolis.com,2015-08-14:1869403:Topic:12031952015-08-14T19:30:43.638ZAnn Morrishttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/AnnMorris
<p>I'll be in the Northbrook area Aug17-26. Anybody interested in hitting in the morning? If so, text me 818-402-6511</p>
<p>I'll be in the Northbrook area Aug17-26. Anybody interested in hitting in the morning? If so, text me 818-402-6511</p>